{"id":179069,"date":"2018-05-26T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/26\/crap-websites\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:40:00","slug":"crap-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/26\/crap-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Because of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GDPR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GDPR<\/a>, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! \ud83d\ude44 <br \/>5.2MB \u2192 500KB <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xwSqqsQR3s\">pic.twitter.com\/xwSqqsQR3s<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Marcel Freinbichler (@fr3ino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fr3ino\/status\/1000166112615714816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It really is remarkable just how crapified and bloated websites have become.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ads and trackers that crapify websites, and I&#8217;m sure that in the next few days, USA Today will succeed in coming up with a website just as bloated and slow as the US one.  <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/13eVd0S.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/13eVd0S.jpg\" width=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! \ud83d\ude44 5.2MB \u2192 500KB pic.twitter.com\/xwSqqsQR3s \u2014 Marcel Freinbichler &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[608,395,367,366],"class_list":["post-179069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-computer","tag-internet","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}